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Campaign Finance Regulations and Public Policy
Martin Gilens
Shawn Patterson
Pavielle Haines 

The analysis was primarily completed with: 

R version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10) -- "Bunny-Wunnies Freak Out"Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS 10.15.7 - 1.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5 - 8GB RAM


The following packages were used:
[1] gsynth_1.1.7   

Author's Note: You must install gsynth via GitHub. The most recent version on CRAN has an issue handling covariates.

 [2] usmap_0.5.2     
 [3] forcats_0.5.0   
 [4] stringr_1.4.0   [5] dplyr_1.0.2     
 [6] purrr_0.3.4     
 [7] readr_1.4.0     
 [8] tidyr_1.1.2     [9] tibble_3.0.4    
[10] ggplot2_3.3.3   
[11] tidyverse_1.3.0 
[12] reshape2_1.4.4 [13] panelView_1.1.2 


Replication Files: 


[1] Campaign_Finance_Codebook.pdf 

File containing the variable codebook and source information for the data. 

[2] Campaign_Finance_Replication.R 

R commands necessary to replicate the analysis in the paper. 

The models are estimated sequentially to insure exact replication. Adjusting the arguments to: parallel=T, cores=4, will expedite the analysis, but will generate slight fluctuations in the bootstrapped uncertainty measures. 


[3] Data 
	[3.1] state_abortion_regulations.csv - data filing containing abortion regulations scale 
	[3.2] state_corporate_tax.csv - data filing containing state corporate tax rates
	[3.3] state_deficits.csv - data filing containing state deficits data
	[3.4] state_emdom_laws.csv - data filing containing state land use / eminent domain laws scale 
	[3.5] state_firms.csv - data filing containing state-level firm data 
	[3.6] state_gdp.csv - data filing containing state GDP data 
	[3.7] state_gun_laws.csv - data filing containing gun regulations scale  
	[3.8] state_individual_tax.csv - data filing containing state individual income tax rates
	[3.9] state_party_control.csv - data filing containing partisan control of state government scale 
	[3.10] state_party_vote.csv - data filing containing Republican vote share for state legislature
	[3.11] state_population.csv - data filing containing state populations
	[3.12] state_presidential_vote.csv - data filing containing Republican vote share in most recent presidential election
	[3.13] state_tort_laws.csv - data filing containing plaintiff-friendly tort law scale   
	[3.14] state_unemR.csv - data filing containing state unemployment rates
	[3.15] state_unions.csv - data filing containing state union membership 

[4] Sorens Data 
	[4.1] b_guns_17.xlsx - Sorens et al.'s raw data on state gun policies 
	[4.2] f_land_17.xlsx - Sorens et al.'s raw data on state land use policies 
	[4.3] o_courts_17.xlsx - Sorens et al.'s raw data on state criminal justice / court policies 
	[4.4] Replicate_Dependent_Variables.do - stata commands to reproduce scales in [3.4], [3.7], and [3.13]


[5] README.txt 

This file describing the contents of the dataverse. 

[6] Campaign_Finance_Appendix.pdf 

Online appendix material for the article. 
